[deepestblue]

My Debian Sarge 3.1r0a does not auto-mount a pen-drive. I have hotplugd running. The kernel message at /var/kernel/log shows an entry on plugging the pen drive, but I have to manually mount it using the mount command. After mounting it manually, it works fine. And no issues with other software or hardware components.

Is there any other tool or daemon that is to be installed for auto mounting USB drives?

I had installed the 2.4 kernel first, and later upgraded to the 2.6 version (2.6.8-2-386). Could this be a problem?

Can I have a normal user get the privilege to mount a pen drive? (Because I have to open the terminal, and type 'sudo mount...' to use the pen drive, every time I plug it).

[saikee]

All mounting devices to be root user only.

You can make aUSB pen drive mounted automatically by adding an entry in /etc/fstab. Editing it also requires root privilege.

[deepestblue]

Originally Posted by saikee

All mounting devices to be root user only.

You can make aUSB pen drive mounted automatically by adding an entry in /etc/fstab. Editing it also requires root privilege.

Thank you for that tip, but I still cannot auto-mount it... I can't figure out why it's not getting auto-mounted in Sarge, while I've seen it happening in Ubuntu, Mandriva, SuSE etc.
I think I can mount a USB drive as a normal user, if I add this line to fstab:
/dev/sda1 /mnt/usb vfat users 0 0 (thanks to google )

Other than hotplugd, is there any other tool/daemon I should install, to get my thing work out?
Kindly advise...